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Mary Lawson (novelist)
Canadian novelist
Mary Lawson | |
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| Born | (age&#;78&#;79) Blackwell, Ontario, Canada |
| Pen name | Mary Lawson |
| Occupation | Psychologist, novelist |
Mary Lawson (born ) is a Canadian novelist best known for her award-winning novel Crow Lake (), and her Booker Prize longlisted novels The Other Side of the Bridge and A Town Called Solace.
Biography
Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario, and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables.
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Her father worked as a research chemist. With a psychology degree in hand from McGill University, Lawson took a trip to Britain and ended up accepting a job as an industrial psychologist. She married a British psychologist, Richard Mobbs.
Lawson spent her summers in the north, and the landscape inspired her to use Northern Ontario as her settings for both her novels.[1] Lawson later admitted that Muskoka, where she spent her summe